CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tuesday marks 75 years since the U.S. Navy captured the U-505 German submarine, now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago Captain Dan Gallery helped secure the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On June 4, 1944, U.S. troops boarded and captured the U-505 Nazi submarine, which they managed to keep a secret until the war ended. By convincing Germany that the U-505 had been sunk ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk ...

So I spent the last week on vacation in Chicago visiting my brother. We went to the Museum of Science & Industry there, mainly so I could see the U-505, a Type IX U ...

Alexander Rose’s "Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist" is a thrilling, deeply researched account of one of the most audacious naval operations of ...

This story was originally published in the Chicago Tribune on Aug. 14, 1954: At the end of a 3,000 mile trip from the Atlantic ocean, the U-505, captured nazi submarine, was hauled ashore last evening ...

The Museum of Science and Industry, home to the U-505 submarine, is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the German boat’s capture with the opening of a new exhibit and free tours of the sub on June 4.

To mark the vessel’s 75th anniversary at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, the museum’s U-505 submarine is getting restoration and a new explanatory exhibit. West Chicago brothers are on the ...